Baking for a Birthday!

I can't resist making a cake.

Making a birthday cake, with a theme, is too much fun for me.

I love it!

So when my awesome brother answered my probing cake questions, he requested a Minecraft cake.

I have seen these boys of mine play this game.

I've never played it.

Thank God for Pinterest and good old Google!

I came up with a plan, then changed it, and then again...

I played with some melted chocolate...

Baked two cakes, mud cakes, and let the creativity loose...

A lot of patience required when baking two mud cakes using the same baking tin!

But, after a few hours....

I had planned on setting the pick/axe thingy standing up on top of the cake, but the sunshine softened it in the car ride over to my brother's place....

But I think he was pretty happy with it that way anyway! 

It tasted so rich, so dense...

Of course the little sweet-toothed munchkins loved it...

Perfect mud cakes!

He wanted to explore, but have his cake too!

A piece for me...

The density of the cake made it perfect to cut into blocks...

Didn't you know sugar can make people a little silly?

Happy (belated) birthday dear brother!